Listen to your compost!
Listen to your compost! Find new connections by slowing down, listening and sparking new conversations.
New technology now makes it possible to listen to the creatures and processes in our compost, and further to this ‘deep listening’ can also help us to engage more closely with nature and with people.
Join us for a walk through Claver Hill, as we slow down and experience all of the sounds we can hear including making use of hydrophones and other technology to listen in to compost – something that we wouldn’t normally be able to hear, or think to listen to!
This event is also an opportunity for those engaged with (or championing) composting across the district to get together. There will be free tea and cake plus plenty of time to chat with others about how demonstration sites are going and how people have managed their composting over the summer. If you don’t compost you are still very welcome!
Nita Burrows is a freelance creative practitioner who is experienced in running community workshops. She records nature sounds, layering them using software to offer a sense of place to the listener.
Janet Swan is a local artist and campaigner with a special interest in listening. She is also a local community composter.
Diana McIntyre coordinates Closing Loops community composting work.
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This workshop is part of Share the Harvest, a month-long festival celebrating locally grown varieties of apples and pears, rescuing unharvested fruit and raising awareness of food waste through a range of community events. FoodFutures and the Closing Loops project invite everyone in North Lancashire to pitch in and harvest, preserve, celebrate and of course eat apples and pears this autumn. Find out more at foodfutures.org.uk/share-the-harvest
